Kim Choon-soo`s nonsense-poetry is a important text of fantasy poetry in that it overthrows the poetic standards and disturbs the rhetoric of representation through surrealistic images. His nonsense-poetics also focus on excluding every concepts and s...
Kim Choon-soo`s nonsense-poetry is a important text of fantasy poetry in that it overthrows the poetic standards and disturbs the rhetoric of representation through surrealistic images. His nonsense-poetics also focus on excluding every concepts and strengthening the materiality of language and image. This study regards the fantasy in Kim Choon-soo`s nonsense-poetry as poetic mode and examines the relation of poems and poetics. The main texts are 『The sonnet of Cheoyong』 part 1 and part 2 and several fantastic poems. In these poems, poetic words don`t have the referential meanings and images don`t product the metaphorical meanings. Only the unexpected combinations of images make disturb structuralizing meaning, and proceed to the concepts `non-signification` or `negative relationality` of fantasy. These characteristics of poetic language show that Kim Choon-soo`s nonsense-poetry contains the fantastic subversion. Well, then why did he need to investigate the nonsense-poetry and fantasy? Nonsense-poetry was not merely formal experiment for Kim Choon-soo. It was a aesthetic method to overcome historical wound and nihilism by doing research on the existence and language.